The multi-coloured rainbow flag, adopted as a symbol of the gay community in
the 1970s, is raised above the Cabinet Office, as same-sex marriage is set
to become legal in England and Wales

8:49PM GMT 28 Mar 2014

A rainblow flag fluttered above the Cabinet Office today ahead of the historic change to the law allowing same-sex marriages.

Peter McGraith, who plans to marry his financier partner David Cabreza in the early hours of Saturday morning at Islington Town Hall in London earlier said everyone should have "the equal opportunity to marry should we want to."

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said his party should be "extremely proud" of the reform.